Opuscula is published yearly by the Swedish Institutes at Athens and Rome. First issued in 2008
(no. 1), Opuscula replaces the annuals Opuscula Atheniensia and Opuscula Romana published by the
Swedish Institute at Athens and the Swedish Institute in Rome respectively.

The annual contains articles within classical archaeology, ancient history, art, architecture and
philology, as well as book reviews within these subjects. Reports of fieldwork carried out under the
supervision of the Institutes at Athens and Rome are regularly reported on in the Opuscula.

The annual welcomes contributions pertaining to the ancient Mediterranean world (prehistory to Late
Antiquity) and the Classical tradition and drawing on archaeological, historical and philological studies;
also, contributions dealing with later periods in the areas, especially in the fields of art, architecture,
history and cultural heritage.

Opuscula is a refereed periodical, available in print and with Open Access six months after publication.

Friday, October 30, 2015

The tradition of performing a Greek play in Cambridge goes back to 1882,
when the very first production was of Sophocles’ tragedy Ajax.
The two producers were not classicists in the strict sense: the first
was John Willis Clark, superintendent of the Museum of Zoology who
possessed a passionate interest in the theatre. The other was Charles
Waldstein, a classical archaeologist.

Often a PhD thesis for some reason cannot be published immediately.
In the years that follow, the authors do not find the time to revise the
manuscript as they wanted. This in turn causes problems because new
literature appears or the evidence of new sources needs to be
incorporated. As a result, the manuscript often remains unpublished and
the valuable insights risk to be inaccessible and thus lost for
scholarship.

To prevent this, Trismegistos Online Publications have decided to
open up a new 'Special Series', where valuable PhD theses or other
scholarly manuscripts can be published with an ISBN number.

Contributors can send in manuscripts in Word or PDF format to mark.depauw@arts.kuleuven.be.
The editor will consult experts about the quality of the manuscript
without taking into account whether it is abreast of recent scholarly
literature or developments.

TOP SS 1 (Click to download)
K. GeensPanopolis, a Nome Capital in Egypt in the Roman and Byzantine Period (ca. AD 200-600)Leuven 2014 [= Diss. Leuven 2007], xiii & 578 pp. (28.4 Mb).
ISBN: 978-94-9060-409-7
The TOP Special Series was created in 2014. Earlier manuscripts that
have been made available in a similar way can be found below.
J. FranceTheadelpheia and Euhemereia. Village History in Graeco-Roman EgyptLeuven, 1999 (Click here; WARNING: large file 55 Mb !! ).
[Unpublished PhD thesis]
K. VandorpeEgyptische geografische elementen in Griekse transcriptieIn Dutch - (English title for reference only: Egyptian geographical elements in Greek transcription)Leuven, 1988 (Click here;
ZIP-file; after decompressing, you will get a folder containing the
text itself - which has been split up in 2 parts – and an index to the
text. All files are searchable PDF's. WARNING: large file 95,8 Mb !! ).
[Unpublished Master thesis, in Dutch]
H. VerrethThe northern Sinai from the 7th century BC till the 7th century AD. A guide to the sourcesLeuven, 2006 (Click here).
ISBN: 978-9-490604-0-11

The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.

The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.

AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.